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Buzz Networker - Social Networking

Archive for October 2007

October 29th, 2007

Using MySpace To Drive Traffic: A One Month Test

Since I started writing Buzz Networker I have preached the promotional powers of MySpace.com and have used it as a key component in a few different case studies that I have done. Every single time I bring up the subject people balk at the idea of using MySpace, either because they don’t believe that their […]

By Kevin -- 8 comments

October 23rd, 2007

The absolute value of MySpace as a self promotional tool

(This was a post that I originally posted on Problogger.net a few months back. That site is so huge I feel like it got lost in the shuffle so I figured I would repost it here.)
The preconceived notions that the blogging community has about MySpace and other social networking sites couldn’t be any more wrong. […]

By Kevin -- 4 comments

October 20th, 2007

This Weekends Quick Hits

MySpace is rumored to be announcing their API next week at a Web 2.0 conference. It will be interesting to see how developers jump on this, I wonder how quick the amount of add ons available will surpass the ones available for Facebook, it at all.
eBay launches their own social networking feature, Neighborhoods. This is […]

By Kevin -- 0 comments

October 19th, 2007

The Evolution of a Wiki Entry

This was a video that we watched in class the other day about the evolution of a Wiki page, specifically the Heavy Metal Umlaut. Personally I think this is fascinating to watch because you can watch the page grow and change from it’s inception.
Jon Udell: Heavy Metal Umlaut 
What is fascinating to me is that we […]

By Kevin -- 1 comment

October 10th, 2007

Yahoo Mash why do you make it so hard for me to love you?

My first online e-mail account was through Yahoo! and have used a high percentage of their services at one time or another since then, ranging from web hosting to their fantasy sports. When I first used google to do a search I felt like I was cheating on my girlfriend, to say I was attached […]

By Kevin -- 6 comments

October 7th, 2007

Review: 8hands Desktop Software

I am in love. That isn’t an easy thing for me to say but today it just freely rolls off of my tongue.
For awhile I have been looking for a social networking aggregation program that had a specific set of features, most notably the ability to have more than one profile from the same social […]

By Kevin -- 7 comments

October 6th, 2007

Some interesting stories floating around

Like I always do I collect a lot of stories that I want to blog about but never find a way to write about them or have time to. Here are a few stories that I found interesting that I thought I would share.
I am always looking for a way to aggregate the data from […]

By Kevin -- 0 comments

October 5th, 2007

My Half Hour Social Networking Plan: The Final Ten Minutes

Part 1- The First Ten Minutes
Part 2- The Second Ten Minutes
We reached the home stretch, the final ten minutes of my half hour social networking promotion plan. Actually I really shouldn’t have called this my social networking plan, I should have called it my social web marketing plan, but anyways. The key word in both […]

By Kevin -- 4 comments

October 3rd, 2007

My Half Hour Social Networking Plan: The Second Ten Minutes

For part one, click here.
Before we move onto step five we need to come to an understanding. Not every post you put up is going to be good, it is a fact of life. If you are writing five days a week or five times a month, not each and every one of your posts […]

By Kevin -- 7 comments

October 1st, 2007

My Half Hour Social Networking Plan: The First Ten Minutes

I have talked about some of the various services I use. Now it is time to talk about how I implement them. Before I dive right into this let me discuss a few points.

1) This will probably take a little longer to start out with- Until you establish a routine it will probably take longer […]

By Kevin -- 12 comments

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